Mrs. de Winter: I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls! Maxim de Winter: You wouldn't be here with me if you were.
Jack Favell: I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without hard work.
Maxim de Winter: [after he has asked her to marry him] My suggestion doesn't seem to have gone at all well, i'm sorry. The Second Mrs. de Winter: Oh but you don't understand! It's just that I, well i'm, not the person men marry.
Mrs. Danvers: She knew everyone that mattered. Everyone loved her.
Mrs. Danvers: Oh, you've moved her brush, haven't you? [moves it slightly] Mrs. Danvers: There, that's better. Just as she always laid it down. "Come on, Danny, hair drill," she would say. [picks up the brush and goes through the motions of combing t...
Maxim de Winter: "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous sho...
Maxim de Winter: That's not the Northern lights. That's Manderley!
Maxim de Winter: [to his wife at breakfast] Have a look at "The Times"; there's a thrilling article on what's the matter with English cricket!
Maxim de Winter: She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.
Maxim de Winter: Happiness is something I know nothing about.
Jack Favell: You know, old boy, I have a strong feeling... that before the day is out, somebody's going to make use of that... rather expressive, though somewhat old-fashioned term ''foul play.''
Policeman: Is this your car, sir ? Jack Favell: Yes. Policeman: Will you be going soon ? This isn't a parking place, you know. Jack Favell: Oh, isn't it ? People are entitled... to leave their cars outside if they want to. It's a pity some of you fel...
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: Have you been doing anything you shouldn't?
Colonel Julyan: Well, let me tell you something, Favell: blackmail isn't so pure nor so simple, and it brings a great deal of trouble to a great many people before it's through, and we know how to deal with it in our part of the world. And, sometimes...
Mrs. Danvers: [to Mrs. de Winter] I watched you godown, just as I watched her a year ago. Even in the same dress, you couln't compare.
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [to Joan Fontaine] THe trouble is, wiith me laid up like this, you haven't had enough to do.
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about the first Mrs. De Winter's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!
The Second Mrs. de Winter: Good evening, Mr. DeWinter.
